On August 29, 2019, JP Sottile joined Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen to discuss the intersection of US Empire with the climate crisis and the ways defense spending is a self-perpetuating machine. Click Here to listen to the full hour. Tweet
On January 5, JP joined Scott Horton to discuss his Truthout article on the role military spending plays as a de facto jobs program. LISTEN HERE On January 12, JP joined Project Censored’s Mickey Huff to talk about the willful … and profitable … blindness to stories other than the daily melodrama of Russiagate….
The US economy is caught in a trap. That trap is the Department of Defense: an increasingly sticky wicket that relies on an annual, trillion-dollar redistribution of government-collected wealth. In fact, it’s the biggest “big government” program on the planet, easily beating out China’s People’s Liberation Army in both size and cost. It is not only the…
On August 9, Ochelli & Sottile unpacked the long-term, irreversible decline of the US manufacturing economy and Trump’s fallacious promise to “bring back” jobs from China. JP explains why Trump’s retrograde economic plan will not revive an economy long based on debt, financialization and military Keynesianism. LISTEN HERE to the SECOND HOUR (JP BEGINS at…